Cindy McCain Caught Plagiarizing Recipes AGAIN

Unbelievable. Some people just don’t learn. You may remember that in April, So Good helped get the word out that Cindy McCain was busted for plagiarizing recipes from the Food Network. The recipes were taken word-for-word from the Food Network website, and listed on the McCain campaign website as “Mccain Family Recipes” with no credit given to the Food Network or mentions that the recipes originally came from their website.

Believe it or not, Cindy McCain has been caught AGAIN doing the EXACT SAME THING! For the last 4 elections, Parents.com and their publications have asked the candidates wives to submit their favorite cookie recipes.

This year, Michelle Obama submitted a recipe for shortbread cookies which utilize amaretto and have a lemon orange zest. Michelle credits the recipe to Mama Kaye, who is the Godmother of her two daughters.

Cindy McCain submitted a recipe for Oatmeal-Butterscotch cookies. Cindy says of the cookies, “originally for special occasions only, these butterscotch-chip-studded cookies are now ‘an absolute must’ whenever the whole family gets together.”

So who does Cindy McCain credit for the recipe? She says it came from “a good friend.” It turns out that like many Republicans, one of Cindy’s “good friends” is not an actual person, but a corporation. In this case, it’s the Hershey’s corporation, who have an identical recipe posted on their website.

Just like the previous recipe plagiarizing incident, the problem is not that Cindy McCain used someone else’s recipe, it’s that just like before, she gave zero credit to the original source of the recipe, and tried to pass it off as her own. And seriously, even if you aren’t going to give credit where credit is due, throw in some walnuts and a 5 minute longer baking time…it’s like she isn’t even TRYING to fool people who know how to use Google.

For shame Cindy, for shame.

Albert Einstein says the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Stop the recipe stealing insanity Cindy!!!!!!

Click below the fold to see actual screenshots of the “Cindy McCain recipe” and the original Hershey’s recipe. Spoiler warning: you aren’t going to find any differences.